The Asteraceae - Daisy Family

Canary Islands Marguerite Purplish Phagnalon Kleinia anteuphorbium Cardoon



Daisy Family - Asteraceae

See also the Yellow-flowered species in the Asteraceae.

Canary Islands Candleplant      Kleinia neriifolia

Native and endemic to the Canary Islands. Common and widespread in a wide range of habitats.

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Habit
Habit
Flowerhead
Flowerhead
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Leaves
Stem
Seedheads
Seedheads


     Kleinia anteuphorbium

Native to Morocco. A sprawling plant with succulent stems, sometimes found spreading over walls from gardens in urban and suburban areas.

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Habit
Flowerheads
Flowerheads
Flowerhead
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Phyllaries
Old flowerhead
Leaves
Stem


Argentine Fleabane      Erigeron bonariensis

(Hairy Fleabane) Introduced from South America. A weed of cultivated places and roadsides.

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Flower spike
Flowerheads
Flowerhead
Flowerhead
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Flowerhead
Seedheads
Upper stem leaf
Stem


Annual Buttonweed      Cotula australis

Introduced to Europe from Australia and New Zealand with imported wool products. Slowly spreading in the Canary Islands as a pavement weed in built up areas.

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Habit
Flowerhead
Flowerhead
Leaf


Canary Islands Marguerite      Argyranthemum frutescens

Native and endemic to the Canary Islands, though most often found where planted as an urban ornamental in Fuerteventura.

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Habit
Habit
Flowerhead
Flowerhead
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Phyllaries
Leaves
Leaves
Leaf detail


Purplish Phagnalon      Phagnalon purpurascens

Native to the Canary Islands and North-west Africa. Found in barrancos and rocky places.

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Habit
Flowerhead
Flowerhead
Young flowerhead
Purplish Phagnalon
Leaves


Broad-leaved Cudweed      Filago pyramidata

Native from Macaronesia eastwards through western Europe and the mediterranean Region to Central Asia.

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Habit
Flowerheads
Flowerheads
Leaf


     Ifloga spicata

Native from Macaronesia eastwards through the southern mediterranean Region to India.

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Habit
Habit
Flowerheads
Leaves


Cardoon      Cynara cardunculus

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. There are several forms of this species, with Fuerteventura plants being of one of the spiny forms.

Cardoon
Flowerhead


Slender Thistle      Carduus tenuiflorus

Possibly native in the Canary Islands. Found on all of the islands, often in cultivated ground around villages and towns.

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Habit
Flowerheads
Phyllaries
Leaf


Bolle's Desert-knapweed      Volutaria bollei

Native and endemic to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Flowers cream or white.

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Habit
Flowerhead
Phyllaries
Leaf


Tubular Desert-knapweed      Volutaria tubuliflora

Native to the Canary Islands and eastward across North Africa to Egypt.

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Flowerhead
Flowerhead
Phyllaries
Phyllaries
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Leaf
Leaf
Leaf base & stem